Top European universities for 2011-12
- By Lin Liyao
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China.org.cn, October 12, 2011
California Institute of Technology has been ranked the world's best university for 2011-2012 in a list published in the Times Higher Education (THE) magazine in early October. It is the first time that CIT has outranked Harvard University on the list, as the latter slipped to joint-second with Stanford after having topped the list since 2004.
In order to capture the full range of university activities across the globe, the rankings employ 13 separate performance indicators which are grouped into five headline categories: teaching — the learning environment (worth 30 percent of the overall ranking score), research — volume, income and reputation (worth 30 percent), citations — research influence (worth 30 percent), industry income — innovation (worth 2.5 percent) and international outlook — staff, students and research (worth 7.5 percent).
Apart from an overall ranking of the world's top 400 universities, the magazine also lists the best universities by region and subject.
• Full list: Top 400 universities in the world 2011-12
• Top universities by region: Asia, North America
The following are the Times Higher Education magazine's top European universities for 2011-12:
|
Rank |
World Rank |
Institution |
Country / Region |
Overall Score |
|
1 |
4 |
University of Oxford |
United Kingdom |
93.6 |
|
2 |
6 |
University of Cambridge |
United Kingdom |
92.4 |
|
3 |
8 |
Imperial College London |
United Kingdom |
90.7 |
|
4 |
15 |
ETH Zürich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich |
Switzerland |
85 |
|
5 |
17 |
University College London |
United Kingdom |
83.2 |
|
6 |
32 |
Karolinska Institute |
Sweden |
73.1 |
|
7 |
36 |
University of Edinburgh |
United Kingdom |
72 |
|
8 |
45 |
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München |
Germany |
67.6 |
|
9 |
46 |
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne |
Switzerland |
66.3 |
|
10 |
47 |
London School of Economics and Political Science |
United Kingdom |
66 |
|
11 |
48 |
University of Manchester |
United Kingdom |
65.7 |
|
12 |
56 |
King's College London |
United Kingdom |
63.2 |
|
13 |
59 |
École Normale Supérieure |
France |
62 |
|
14 |
61 |
University of Zürich |
Switzerland |
61.9 |
|
15 |
63 |
École Polytechnique |
France |
61.5 |
|
16 |
66 |
University of Bristol |
United Kingdom |
60.9 |
|
17 |
67 |
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven |
Belgium |
60.8 |
|
18 |
68 |
Utrecht University |
Netherlands |
60.4 |
|
19 |
69 |
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen |
Germany |
60.3 |
|
20 |
73 |
Universität Heidelberg |
Germany |
58.7 |
|
21 |
75 |
Wageningen University and Research Center |
Netherlands |
57.4 |
|
22 |
79 |
Leiden University |
Netherlands |
57 |
|
23 |
80 |
Lund University |
Sweden |
56.9 |
|
24 |
83 |
Durham University |
United Kingdom |
56.4 |
|
25 |
84 |
Université Pierre et Marie Curie |
France |
56 |
|
26 |
85 |
University of St Andrews |
United Kingdom |
55.7 |
|
27 |
87 |
Uppsala University |
Sweden |
55.2 |
|
28 |
88 |
Technische Universität München |
Germany |
55.1 |
|
29 |
91 |
University of Helsinki |
Finland |
54.8 |
|
30 |
92 |
University of Amsterdam |
Netherlands |
54.7 |
|
31 |
99 |
University of Sussex |
United Kingdom |
53.9 |
|
32 |
101 |
University of Sheffield |
United Kingdom |
53.6 |
|
33 |
102 |
University of Glasgow |
United Kingdom |
53.4 |
|
34 |
104 |
Delft University of Technology |
Netherlands |
53.1 |
|
35 |
106 |
Ghent University |
Belgium |
53 |
|
36 |
107 |
Royal Holloway, University of London |
United Kingdom |
52.9 |
|
37 |
109 |
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
Germany |
52.6 |
|
38 |
111 |
Universität Basel |
Switzerland |
52.2 |
|
39 |
112 |
University of Bern |
Switzerland |
52.1 |
|
40 |
115 |
Eindhoven University of Technology |
Netherlands |
51.3 |
|
41 |
116 |
Université de Lausanne |
Switzerland |
51.2 |
|
42 |
117 |
Trinity College Dublin |
Republic of Ireland |
51.1 |
|
43 |
121 |
University of York |
United Kingdom |
50.4 |
|
44 |
125 |
Aarhus University |
Denmark |
50 |
|
45 |
127 |
Queen Mary, University of London |
United Kingdom |
49.9 |
|
46 |
127 |
University of Southampton |
United Kingdom |
49.9 |
|
47 |
130 |
University of Geneva |
Switzerland |
49.8 |
|
48 |
131 |
Lancaster University |
United Kingdom |
49.7 |
|
49 |
131 |
Stockholm University |
Sweden |
49.7 |
|
50 |
133 |
University of Leeds |
United Kingdom |
49.5 |
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